The Accidental Successful CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

What we do when we are unhappy is what makes all the difference Image Credit: stefan klocek. Having the CIO job sure seems like it should be something that would make you happy. I’m willing to guess that since you’ve worked so hard to get this position most days you are at least fairly happy with the idea of going to work to deal with things related to the importance of information technology.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Autonomous payments is the future state of payments – and banks, merchants and payment vendors need to prepare now. Venture funding in this arena already exceeds $28 billion. Coupled with intensifying economic and political forces, consumers globally will see this new, but nonlinear evolution of payments emerge, where payments will melt into the wider commerce […].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Read Jareth’s tips on how small and medium businesses can protect themselves from hackers on Security Boulevard : As a small enterprise owner, it’s easy to fall into the trap of assuming that cybercriminals won’t target you. After all, why would anyone waste their time going after your business when there are much juicier fish […].

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Data ops, data engineering, data development — oh my! From new roles and teams to new skills and processes, the hot topic on everyone’s mind is data ops. I started to notice the data ops emergence back in 2015 as companies began to look at Agile development to spin up new data capabilities rapidly. Later, as […].

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The Wall Street Journal proves once again that anyone can claim to be an expert in cybersecurity challenges and even provide us with solutions to enduring problems. One enduring problem is that businesses need more cybersecurity talent. The Wall Street Journal cites a career website for cybersecurity professionals in saying there are 300,000 unfilled cybersecurity jobs […].

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Data ops, data engineering, data development – oh my! From new roles, teams, skills and processes, the hot topic on everyone’s mind is data ops. I started to notice the data ops emergence back in 2015 as companies began to look at agile development to spin up new data capabilities rapidly. Later, as data preparation […].

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

In a few months, the internet will be a more secure place. That’s because the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has voted to go ahead with the first-ever changing of the cryptographic key that helps protect the internet’s address book – the Domain Name System (DNS). [ Now see: The hidden cause of slow internet and how to fix it. ].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The US State Department confirmed it suffered a data breach that exposed employee data; the breach affected the State Department’s unclassified email system. It’s not like the agency suddenly decided to tell the public about the breach; the incident only came to light after Politico got hold of a Sept. 7 “Sensitive but Unclassified” notice about […].

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

AI can expedite manual processes that exist throughout an enterprise, but the nature of the human insight is necessary to rationally manage these processes and make contextual decisions.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Read Robert McMillan’s article about how hackers use social engineering to steal company secrets on Wall Street Journal: Often it begins with an innocuous-seeming email from an internet domain that closely resembles the victims. The message may appear to come from the company’s chief executive or another senior executive. “Are you at your desk?

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Enterprise organizations are already seeing benefits from their machine learning practices, but Forrester Research says they've only scratched the surface.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Unknown hackers broke into Newegg web servers and stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between August 14 and September 18, Yonathan […].

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Anoop

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

After long wait now you can block Windows personal devices from enrolling into Microsoft Intune. Microsoft rolled out this restriction options all Intune tenants. I’ve a previous post from Jan 2017 learn how to restrict personal iOS devices from enrolling into Intune. Learn how to block personal Windows devices from Intune enrolment and to access […].

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Corelight was founded by the creators of the open-source Bro project. Bro data is 100x richer than netflow data, 100x smaller than traditional packet capture (PCAP), and, anecdotally, provides 20x faster Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR). Corelight makes Bro enterprise ready. Corelight also makes deploying sensors easy. For an overview of Corelight and how […].

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Edge computing holds promise for enterprises, particularly in supporting their IoT implementations. However, edge also raises some security concerns.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The definition of innovation is simple, to gain benefit by doing something different. The flashes of inspiration we now see in retrospect as groundbreaking inventions or innovations were driven by people not only far-sighted but determined to make their ideas succeed. In the organizational level, having innovation curve awareness means that innovation leaders need to understand that working in an innovation garden not only takes passion but also needs the process and hard work to ride above the

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Hacker Earth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The speed of change requires the business to adapt to the dynamic business new normal, and the fiery business competition pushes organizations to deliver qualified products or services to woo customers and gain the market share. Nowadays, quality is everyone’s business. High-quality enterprise is comprised of high-quality people, high-quality products/services, and high-quality business capabilities/processes, etc.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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Future of CIO

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Compare to the other executive positions, the CIO role continues to be shaken up, refined, reinvented and reenergized. The magic “I” of the CIO title sparks many imaginations and modern CIOs need to wear different hats and play multiple roles. Here are a set of blogs to brainstorm digital CIOs as “ Chief Innovation Officers.” Chief Innovation Officer The CIO as “Chief Innovation Officer”: How to Build a Highly Innovative Team Nowadays, forward-thinking organizations empower their CIOs to facilit

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Recruiting top-class talent is challenging in itself and doing it on a low budget can be quite a daunting task! Startups and mid-sized companies that typically operate on a shoestring (small) budget (before they catch the eye of the big VCs and make it to the big league) are commonly faced with the predicament of how to recruit the right candidate with their limited budget.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

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